(toskanews) — A brazen, manipulative boy, constantly looking for money and a teacher who leads a monotonous life and doesn’t know love except through books. They are the main characters of the film Nicolangelo Gelormini The Joybeautifully performed by Valeria Golino And Saul Nanniin theaters February 12.
Valeria Golino and Saul Nanni talk about “La Gioia”, at the cinema from February 12th
Inspired by a news storythe film takes us to a province where people are isolated, detached from their emotions and far from true sharing. Gioia and Alex, so different, when they meet they seem to give meaning to their lives.
«It is the meeting of two souls that are marginal and that try to permeate each other» he explained Valeria Golinowhile the director added: «It is the fruit of a sentimental miseducation. How many times do we confuse love with need? The need to love and the need to be loved.”
Alex’s mother, played by, did not have a sentimental education Jasmine Trincaalways looking for money and incapable of conveying affection: «She too is dazzled by this need for wealth, the need to arrive».
For Saul Nanni the protagonists seem to «live in completely their own dynamics, in their own world, moved by nothing, by something purely superficial». The director concludes with a bitter reflection: «How do we not recognize this threat? At the base there is precisely this sentimental miseducation, a topic of today.”
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